FridoDiamond
Chieftain
Protestantism is in the list of religions in this scenario, but how does it come out?
??????
Is it acivated after a in the end? I have played for atleast 100 turns and no protestantism so far...
no GERMANY!
Yes, the map is just MURDER. Two reasons:I just wish that there was a smaller map to play the scenario on, it's just too huge to have any actual gameplay and reach the other side of the map...
There's no actual thread on the scenario, is there?
With different points awarded, I feel like certain civs have different viable victory options.I started it up as the Almohads, was dissapointed that I would most probably not interact with anyone for the next 50 turns and started a new game as the French... After having played for about a bit more than after the first HRE election, (55 turns or so), I am really really dissapointed.p.
My main criticisms:
- No small(er) map option
I kind of like the option of founding your own empire. Of course, the AI city spams like there's no tomorrow....[*]no set up empires, you need a few turns to found your cities and get to know the map before you can do anything (attack the neighbours, spread religion, etc. ...)
There are large expanses of territory (Iberia, Greece, middle of North Africa, areas around Russia) but that's okay.[*]large empty rooms, see for example the Iberian Peninsula where no civs compete, Spain's game would mainly consist of rexing the peninsula and building units for the new world victory points
[*]But for example also the room between the German City States and Russia seems awfully empty. As do maybe the South Balkans, but I never got a change to see that part of the map anyways... If you have a huge map, you need somethin there, not?
Austria gets huge, but that's largely due to marriages.[*]no GERMANY! Which means that you get a huge Austria and huge Netherlands, when these were actually rather boxed in.
Well, there is the one achievement for taking Jerusalem with England. I did that one but was just playing to get the achievement (not win).[*]The scenario starts with the Crusades, but there's no way you are going to conquer Jerusalem as one of the European civs, too far away simply.
I don't know about that.As the civs are so far apart, there's actually not much I can do to stop another civ from winning but concentrating on my own growth?
It was ridiculous seeing the number of handsome princes and beautiful princesses that Maria Theresa kept churning out! (Literally at least a dozen!).
The only real viable means for fast conquest is a frigate rush. This is actually quite easy with Byzantium as you'll start with the dromon which means you get a headstart with experience so once you get to 60exp you can promote your dromon to extra range - then you'll be able to attack cities outside of their range.As Byzantines I was unable to push my army to Jerusalem, so I have no idea how anyone further out in Europe does it... the Ottomans seem able to summon infinite units by land and sea.
It's also a bit frustrating to use the old social policy tree... I would love to hear what the best combo of policies to grab in the first turns is for example. I've tried grabbing the second settler immediately thru liberty and I've tried making several policy trees open to take from as needed but there must be a way to get culture churning fast enough to get all the best advantages.